Company Description

We are SNV

SNV is a global development partner, deeply rooted in the countries where we operate. Driven by a vision of a better world where all people live with dignity and have equitable opportunities to thrive sustainably, SNV strengthens capacities and catalyses partnerships that transform agri-food, energy, and water systems. We help strengthen institutions and effective governance, reduce gender inequalities and barriers to social inclusion, and enable adaptation and mitigation to the climate and biodiversity crises. With 60 years of experience and a team of approximately 1,600 people, we support our partners in more than 20 countries in Africa and Asia, tailoring our approaches to different contexts to achieve large-scale impact and create more equitable lives for all.

Our CARE principles—Committed to Impact, Adaptive to Context, Respecting Differences, and Expertise in Practice—are at the heart of who we are and the work we do. These principles are embedded in our vision, mission, and strategy, which serve as our compass guiding us towards 2030.

For more information on SNV, please refer to our website: www.snv.org

Job Description

We are currently looking for a Country Director Tanzania

• Fulltime- Dar Es Salaam
• Reporting to Deputy Director of Country Programmes

The role of Country Director is critical for the success of SNV and reports to the Deputy Director Country Programmes ESA. The Country Director Tanzania will spearhead SNV’s impact through business development, team leadership, operational excellence and partner engagement in countries.

Our aim is to maintain and expand our diverse portfolio and impact in the matured development context of Tanzania. Focus of the role will be developing and enabling the teams to work on nexus programmes to achieve systems transformation as well seeking to expand our portfolio working with local partners for greater impact.

Country Director Tanzania

SNV seeks an entrepreneurial, results-oriented, seasoned people leader who will lead the Tanzania country teams in enabling and delivering high quality impact programs.
SNV offers the successful candidate a challenging position, leading a well-established team with a EUR 40 million program portfolio. The portfolio includes support from the Netherlands Ministry of Development Cooperation, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, International Climate Initiative, Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, Energising Development (EnDev) and European Union.

The Country Director is responsible for leading and enabling the country programs with and through their teams and local implementation partners. It is a multi-faceted role, focused on upscaling and strategically strengthening the country position with an ambitious country strategy, ensuring high-quality delivery of operations, and securing adequate funding to sustain and grow opportunities to deliver impact. The Country Director needs to be well informed about national and international development priorities and steer the sectors and themes in response to these priorities. The Country Director is expected to forge partnerships and alliances between SNV and important national and international actors and stimulate collaboration for impact. He/she will be the face of SNV in the country and ensure its positive image and visibility.

The Country Director leads, coaches and supports their country management team (CMT) and inspires a total team of 100 team members in 6 offices across Tanzania. Building capabilities to deliver our 2030 ambition is a key deliverable for the CMT. The Country Director is a key member of SNV’s global senior leadership team, and a key contributor in the ESA cluster, making meaningful contributions across the wider organisation to further shape and enable the future of SNV.

Your role

The Country Director is responsible for leading and enabling the country program with and through their team and local implementation partners. It is a multi-faceted role, focused on upscaling and strategically strengthening the country position with an ambitious country strategy, ensuring high-quality delivery of operations, and securing adequate funding to sustain and grow opportunities to deliver impact. The Country Director needs to be well informed about national and international development priorities and steer the sectors and themes in response to these priorities. The Country Director is expected to forge partnerships and alliances between SNV and important national and international actors and stimulate collaboration for impact. She/he will be the face of SNV in the country and ensure our positive image and visibility.

In this role you will also be responsible for the following tasks:

• Strategic leadership of the country programme. Providing innovative leadership and encouraging people to take an active role in programme design and proposal development and ensuring quality and implementation in line with the strategic directions within the annual Plan and SNV’s global strategy;

• Strong and supportive people leadership enabling the country team: creating and nurturing an environment that supports high performance, continuous learning and teamwork at all levels;

• Representation and profiling: building partnerships and maintaining excellent relationships with national and local governments, donors, partners, businesses, policy makers and other relevant stakeholders;

• Oversight and quality assurance of project implementation (including project director roles) ensuring the delivery of impact to the satisfaction of key stakeholders and compliance with national Indonesian government regulations, SNV’s and the donor’s financial standards and monitoring protocols;

• Business development to grow the country position and its programmes, ensure financial sustainability of SNV in Indonesia and ensure high-quality project design;

• Collaboration with other SNV countries to effectively exploit opportunities for synergy, deliver at scale (including multi-country projects), exchange knowledge and strengthen SNV’s positioning;

• Foster innovation of SNV products and services: facilitate learning, documentation and evidence-based knowledge development in collaboration with SNV’s global team and partners; and ensures collaboration with renowned knowledge institutes and networks.

Qualifications

Your background

The ideal candidate brings a minimum of ten years of relevant senior leadership experience at an end-responsible level in general management with proven experience in business development and acquisition, project implementation in an international context.

We expect you to be a strong people leader with an understanding and curiosity for diversity and inclusion. You thrive in an environment where evidence building is required, and you engender passion to motivate others. You have experience in cooperation with governments, private sector organisations and partners as well as donor relations, and actors in SNV’s three sectors and core thematic areas.

You have strong business acumen accompanied by demonstrated business development experience in climate issues, innovative financing, and private sector engagement. You have developed a vision on alternative revenue streams for NGOs and you have experience with large tenders and grants from multilateral development agencies, banks and bilateral donors.

You have a proven track record in portfolio management in a complex stakeholder field and you have a solid understanding of country operations and its related procedures and processes.
You role model successful resource mobilisation, including strong networking and positioning skills at multiple levels. Your people-centric focus allows you to mobilise teams against strategy.

You are able to coach, lead, stimulate, and inspire professionals in a development context. Proficiency in both written and spoken English is required.

Additional Information

Working for SNV
We are home to 57 cultures working in 22 countries, with about 95% of our team members holding the nationality of the respective countries we work in. We promote (international) career development. Our workforce consists of a mix of both people with longstanding tenure, willing to share their institutional knowledge, as well as people with external backgrounds and experience. All with an inquisitive view and united in ‘ONE SNV’ working towards our purpose.

Together, we are committed to the effective and efficient stewardship of resources and maximising positive, lasting impacts. Our ability to deliver results rests on our robust foundation of experience, technical knowledge, evidence and learning; our commitment to strengthening capacities and catalysing partnerships; and the relationships and trust of those we work alongside.

At SNV, inclusivity is at the heart of our ethos. We celebrate the diversity of our workforce and uphold a policy of non-discrimination based on factors such as disability status, religion, ethnic origin, gender, sexual orientation, and more.

Our offer
We offer a competitive salary and benefits package in a stimulating work environment, opportunities to lead and innovate, and a commitment to growing your skills in a fulfilling international working environment.

Additional information

• Contract Type: Full time (40 hours per week)
• Contract Duration: 3 years initial assignment, with the possibility to extend
• Expected Start Date: ASAP
• Duty Station: Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

How to apply
If you believe that your credentials meet the outlined profile, we invite you to apply by uploading your CV and letter of motivation by 7th September 2025..
An assessment could be part of the selection process.

Reference and vetting check
We will require that you provide us with the full details of three people willing to act as a reference. We will not contact these references without your explicit permission.

SNV carries out rigorous background and reference checks concerning possible safeguarding incidents for all candidates applying for International determined positions. As SNV participates in the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme, all reference checks include a request to past employers to fill in a questionnaire regarding Misconduct (sexual exploitation, sexual abuse, or sexual harassment), the “Statement of Conduct". This Statement of Conduct adopts the definitions used in the Scheme.

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